Idries Shah Quotes
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
Oliver Hudson -
I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
Laura Haddock -
The student will try to defy the master. Always.
Maggie Q -
If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
Ted Turner -
I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.
Tavi Gevinson -
If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
Abu Bakr
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
Upamanyu Chatterjee -
I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
Rachel Dratch -
It's important to have a dream no matter how old you are.
Yuichiro Miura -
Nothing recedes like progress.
e. e. cummings -
Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
Ralph Bunche -
Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
Naomi Klein
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Life is one big love story with hundreds of little love stories within it.
Ram Charan -
The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
Ban Ki-moon -
Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
Abigail Washburn -
Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
Tabitha Soren -
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
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I make chicks consider themselves widows whose husbands ain't even died yet.
Chino XL -
I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.
Matt Flynn -
He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.
Thomas Carlyle -
No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.
Edie Brickell -
I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.
Uma Thurman -
Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
Idries Shah